Endocrinology: Basic and Clinical Principles is a new, original, and encyclopedic tutorial survey of the latest scientific and clinical knowledge across the entire spectrum of endocrinology-from mammalian cells, plants, and insects to animal models and human disease. This superbly concise book, edited and written by leading scientists and clinicians, illuminates the basic scientific principles underlying every aspect of hormone secretion and action and leads the reader toward a full understanding of the pathogenesis and management of human endocrine disease.
Endocrinology: Basic and Clinical Principles provides a comprehensive knowledge base of both the fundamental and clinical science of endocrinology. It will immediately become an indispensable guide-not only for students, but also for all professionals who need a high-quality, absolutely up-to-date critical survey and reference in endocrinology today. The practicing endocrinologist will find it particularly useful as a user-friendly encyclopedia of applied basic endocrine science.

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Leading scientists and clinicians create a concise yet comprehensive encyclopedia of the latest scientific and clinical knowledge covering the entire spectrum of endocrinology-from mammalian cells, plants, and insects to animal models and human disease. Their book illuminates the scientific principles underlying all aspects of hormone secretion and hormone action and leads the reader toward a full understanding of the pathogenesis of human endocrine disease. It will be indispensable to physicians and scientists as well as to students who need a high-quality, up-to-date critical survey and reference to endocrinology today.

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Part I. Introduction. Introduction to Endocrinology, P. Michael Conn. Part II. Hormone Secretion and Action. Receptors: Molecular Mediators of Hormone Action, Kelly E. Mayo. Second Messenger Systems and Signal Transduction Mechanisms, Eliot R. Spindel. Steroid Hormones, Jonathan Lindzey and Kenneth S. Korach. Hormone Actions in the Brain, Bruce S. McEwen. Peptide Growth Factors, Peter Rotwein. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes: Locally Acting Agents, John A. McCracken. Cytokines and Endocrine Function, Bryan L. Spangelo. The Neuroendocrine-Immune Interface, Michael S. Harbuz and Stafford L. Lightman. Part III. Insects/Plants/Comparative. Insect Hormones, Lawrence I. Gilbert. Phytohormones and Signal Trasduction in Plants, Klaus Palme, Christopher Redhead, and Peter Kristoffersen. Comparative Endocrinology, Fredrick Stormshak. Part IV. Hypothalamic-Pituitary. Hypothalamic Hormones: GnRH, TRH, GHRH, SRIF, CRH, and Dopamine, Constantine A. Stratakis and George P. Chrousos. Anterior Pituitary Hormones, Ilan Shimon and Shlomo Melmed. Posterior Pituitary Hormones, Daniel G. Bichet. Endocrine Disease: Value for Understanding Hormonal Actions, Glenn D. Braunstein. Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressor Genes in Tumorigenesis of the Endocrine System, Lin Pei and Shlomo Melmed. The Pineal Hormone-Melatonin, Irina V. Zhdanova and Richard J. Wurtman. Thyroid Hormones (T4, T3), Gregory Brent. Calcium-Regulating Hormones: Vitamin D and Parathyroid Hormone, Geoffrey N. Hendy. The Endocrine System of the Gastrointestinal Tract, Gary A. Wittert, Robert Fraser, and John E. Morley. The Endocrine Pancreas: Insulin and Glucagon, Donald A. McClain. Cardiovascular Hormones, Willis K. Samson. Adrenal Medulla (Catecholamine and Peptides), William J. Raum. Kidney Hormones: The Kallihrein-Kinin and Renin-Angiotensin Systems, Gordon H. Williams, Julie Chao, and Lee Chao. Reproduction and Fertility, Alan C. Dalkin and John C. Marshall. Regulation of Pregnancy, Parturition, and Lactation, John R. G. Challis. Index .